I’m painting my house and have been looking for ways to make the process more efficient.
I borrowed a friend’s paint-sprayer last week. Instead of dipping a brush into paint, painting a slab of wood and repeating the process, you squeeze a handle and pressurized paint sprays across the surface. You can do this all day as long as there’s a paint supply. With a 5-gallon bucket, that’s quite awhile.
Guys like gadgets and I’m a guy and it’s a gadget. I figured it would be a beautiful marriage of testosterone and power. I knew I was in for more than I bargained for when I was priming the pump to get the thing ready to paint. You put a small hose into a slop bucket and run the motor to get paint in the system. Then you can flip the switch and the hose with the sprayer is ready to go. What you don’t want to do is switch back to the primer hose with all that compressed paint in there. That’s what I did. And I wasn’t holding the small hose. If you can imagine one of those water toys that has a hose and it flips all over the place when you turn on the water, that’s what I had. But it was white paint instead of water. And it wasn’t my yard. It was my dining room.
This kind of mess would have been very difficult to achieve without the paint sprayer. I was able to do in a mere 2 seconds what would have taken several minutes with a brush. Technology is great.
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